Policy and purpose of full computerization
- The resolution requires full computerization of the Criminology Licensure Examination to address technological modernization and globalization.
- Full computerization is intended to produce credible, qualitative and efficacious licensure examinations that gain the public trust and faith.
- Full computerization is intended to enable expeditious releases of examination results.
- Full computerization is intended to give the Board ample time to exercise its regulatory powers and functions.
Legal authority and related directives
- The Board’s authority to adopt measures and policies is grounded on Section 2 of R.A. No. 6506 and Section 6(a) of P.D. No. 223, as amended.
- The resolution is implemented in line with Res. No. 265, Series of 1993, which directed full computerization of examinations of professions under the Commission’s supervision in 1993, except professions with examinees below 1,000, which were to be programmed in 1994.
- The resolution expressly describes that full computerization covers not only correction and rating of test papers but also the question data bank from which questions are extracted and randomly arranged by and through the computer.
Coverage and when computerization starts
- The resolution applies to the Criminology Licensure Examination.
- Full computerization begins with the October 1994 schedule.
- The computerization system uses a question bank located at the Commission.
Question formulation, validation, and balance
- Each Board Member with the assigned subject must frame or formulate his/her own questions or adopt questions supplied by the academe after modifying or re-forming them.
- Every question must be appraised by a technical expert to ensure objectivity, validity, reliability and efficaciousness.
- Every question must be unambiguous and definite, calling for only one definite correct answer.
- Questions must be classified by degree of difficulty (easy, average and hard) and by level of knowledge and proficiency.
- Questions must be classified by type:
- Subjective (e.g., problem, drawing or essay); and
- Objective (e.g., multiple choice of four (4) or more items).
- Subjects that use both objective and subjective questions must follow a weight proportion of 70% objective and 30% subjective.
Building and maintaining the question bank
- Each Board Member assigned to a subject must initially input into the Commission’s question bank no less than five hundred (500) questions for each subject.
- The initial input must be based on the syllabus, containing the concepts and topics.
- For every succeeding examination, the Board Member must build up by no less than three hundred (300) questions to reach an optimum ideal number of at least three thousand (3,000) questions.
- The questions in the question bank must be withdrawable or replenishable with questions abreast of economic, social, technological and scientific advances and globalization of the profession.
Ownership, withdrawal limits, and post-assignment review
- Once questions are fed into the question bank, they become the intellectual property of the Commission.
- The Board Member who formulated and inputted the questions loses the right to withdraw them.
- When a Board Member is no longer in office, the newly appointed Board Member assigned to the subject, or the incumbent Board Member reassigned out of rotation by the Chairman, must review the question bank questions.
- The reviewing Board Member may reword or delete questions and may add new questions.
Random extraction and multiple sets
- The Board Member must randomly extract or withdraw the required number of questions for the subject from the question bank.
- The extraction must be randomized to produce at least two (2) sets.
- Each set must have different chronological arrangements of questions for printing and distribution to the examinees.
Confidential-room safeguards and timing restriction
- During extraction and printing of questions and during assembling and packaging of questionnaires, all authorized persons present in the confidential room must not be allowed to get out until after the lapse of one (1) hour from the start of the examination for the concerned subject.
- Agents of NBI, security officers, designated persons, and even authorized observers must be stationed outside the confidential room to watch and/or safeguard the proceedings.
System security and access control
- Computer programs and files must be ensured to be tamper-free.
- Multiple passwords must be adopted so that no one person has complete control of, or access to, the computer programs and files.
- Three (3) responsible key officials must be designated for this purpose.
Automated and manual correction procedures
- Answers to objective type questions (multiple choice) must be corrected and rated through the OMR (Optical Mark Reader) Machine.
- Answers to subjective type questions (problem solving, drawing or essay) may be corrected through the OMR or manual process.
Effectivity, dissemination, and approval condition
- The resolution takes effect after fifteen (15) days following its publication in the Official Gazette or in any newspaper of general circulation, whichever is earlier.
- The resolution’s effective implementation is tied to approval by the Commission.
- The resolution must be disseminated through school/colleges/universities offering the Criminology course to all concerned.